NEW GREAT EASTERN RULES.
AV,hat Englishmen iluive to 'expect from the recent .appointment of Mr Henry W. 'J'hbrnton, of the Long Island Railroad, to the managership of the Gieat Eastern v is humorously anticipated.% the fallow,ine lines in the 'Globe':— LITTLE LESSONS FOR G Y I? TIUYEIJLERS. ' " I. ■ At first, of . course, it will b e l ltl rcl To say "conductor^— meaning "guard. But try with all your misrht and main lo say "'tile, cars," and'not "the train > 111. Tis easy, if yon persevere, 1 o call the driver "engineer." IV. The Yankee does not much admire 111,011 Who talk of "stokers"—not of firemen." V. Rut then lie always deems it fine To say "the track," and not "the line." ' -- Vi Learn well these rules, -and none will bar You on the new G. E. K. 1{
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Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 3
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138NEW GREAT EASTERN RULES. Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 3
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